A Study Of Director Gillmor Del Toro’s Artistic Style

As one of the most famous directors in contemporary Mexico,Gillmor Del Toro plays a vital role in the history of Mexico film.He is known as one of the "three heroes of Mexico",and together with Yali Sandro Gonzalez Innaritu and Alfonso Caron,he is committed to promoting Mexico film to the world.Since his debut in 1993,the horror film "devil’s silver claw" has won nine awards from the Mexico Film Festival,he has attracted much attention from Hollywood.In 1997,he was invited to complete his first Hollywood movie,Mimic.Among the ten films directed so far,no matter blade 2,Baron of hell,Pacific Rim,Pan’s labyrinth and The Shape of Water,which have achieved good box office results,or Oscar winning,Gilmore del Toro has tried his best to interpret the grand scene of both business and art.He is keen on symbolism and surrealism,wandering between reality and fantasy.His films face the fear of existence,perfect fusion of fantasy and terror.While showing popular culture,they also pay attention to the consideration of human circumstances,presenting a distinct and unique life belief and aesthetic pursuit for the audience.This article will combine Gillmor Del Toro’s personal notes,interviews and film works and other information,from the creative theme,character image,narrative strategy and audio-visual language,the four main factors that measure the artistic style of a director,this paper tries to explore his unique artistic style and value.This paper is composed of six parts:the introduction is mainly based on the review,analysis and summary of Guillermo del Toro’s related literature,and discusses the research background,research purpose and significance,research status,research methods and innovation points of this paper.After that,The first chapter of this paper mainly summarizes Gilmore del Toro’s creative background and his directing works,and analyzes the causes of his directing art style.The second chapter analyzes the multiple themes in his films,focusing on four different categories of attributes:childhood,emotion,terror and political issues,and describes the childhood imprint under innocence and violence,the contradiction between humanity after warmth and greed,the expression of awe in reality and fantasy,and the political reflection in death and oppression.The third chapter focuses on the analysis of the characters in his films,including the male image of good and evil,the traditional and modern female image,the passive and lonely child image and the monster image of good and evil;The fourth chapter explores the artistic style of Gilmore del Toro’s films through the analysis of narrative strategy and audio-visual language.The narrative strategy includes its multiple narrative perspectives,highly concise symbolic mirror rhetoric and the linear latitude of surreal time and space,Audiovisual language includes montage,treacherous voice,fantastic color tone and digital real effects in his films.The fifth chapter summarizes the artistic value of Gilmore del Toro’s films and Its Enlightenment to Chinese films.In summary,this article explores Gillmor Del Toro’s artistic style,explores his creative experience and creative expression,and deeply understands the director’s ideological content and spiritual core in his works,aiming at a more complete interpretation of the director’s film works.In order to provide some theoretical reference for the creation and development of China’s local films in the long history of film history.